This is a fanfiction the story line and characters are not mine. I do write spoilers as conversations between my character and my friend in this fiction. updates may be varied as it depends on what's going on in my life on when I'm able to write. Hope you like it!
Third p.o,v
Once the two girls left the hotel they grabbed some quick fast food to eat on the way to the first house in Erasers territory to which they took one look and said no. The house was tiny and had three windows total, it had a big yard which they liked but the rest was a no.
They keep going around looking at the houses or condos not liking them for the most part but it wasn't surprising the two as they both liked space and more rural settings then city life.
"Dude if this one is a dunce let's go with the second one we saw." Nikki says her arms behind her head as she watches a kid run across the street.
"Agreed. Though I have a feeling about this one, it had the most land compared to the others." Sarah says slipping the paper into her back pocket as she looks at the street signs.
Sarah's eyes widen as the house comes into sight, her heart leaps as a sense of belonging and home washed over her. The house in front of them was more like a little cottage with a wooden picket fence in front that seems to wrap around the side to the back.
"Dude those are witch plants...like to ward off evil spirits. Like that one right there," she points to a big green bush looking plant "Is wormwood it's not native to here. The ones along the fence are sage and white sage….like holy fuck that is some super rare hard to find shit. Only the tribes in america are allowed to sell and grow it without special permits. Whoever owned this place had to been a witch of some kind."
Nikki blinks at her friend before observing the property before them. "How the fuck do you know that?"
Sarah coughs, rubbing her neck looking at the house, her voice sheepish. "I may have gotten into a bit of witchcraft though nothing bad just the warding, banishing and protection stuff."
Nikki hums at her not surprised but the feeling of home had also reached her which confused her seems they hadn't even gone inside.
"That's lavender and wormwood and that tall spindly one is mugwort. Dude this is some powerful shit like the energy coming off the place tells me that." Sarah mutters forgetting her friend didn't feel energy as she did, it was part of being an empath which is why she had gotten into witchcraft in the first place.
"Well sounds like this is well protected, who's turf is this again?" Nikki questions as they walk around the block trying to see the place better but are met with a high brick wall that has thorny vines coming up and over it.
"Uh Gummy's turf...dude those are climbing roses, it'd be a bitch to climb so it'd be safe from being jumped easily." Sarah observes gently touching a vine.
They both jum when they hear a voice behind them. "Can I help you two? I haven't seen you two around before."
Turning they see FatGum himself standing behind them with a sidekick neither knew.
Both the girls' faces light up as they see him both excited that they were meeting him.
"Holy shit." Nikki mutters, her arms dropping and she quickly puts her hands in her pockets.
Sarah manages to swallow her fangirl squeal and answer the man. "We just moved here and are looking for a place, I found this place in the paper and we thought we'd check it out first before contacting any realtors."
"I see, well then this place is actually one my agency is selling seems the people who lived here were my side kicks." He says relaxing a bit and smiling.
'Holy shit, don't faint Sarah you are a taken woman...who's favorite hero is standing in front of you. By god he is tall.' Sarah thinks tilting her head back to look at the man feeling tiny.
He waves for them to follow as he talks more. "The owner had a rare quirk as did her husband. The two were very powerful on their own and let's go with they made an unstoppable team. The wife had a witch quirk that could see into the future," This caught both the girls' full attention and Sarah gave Nikki an 'I told you' look. "While her husband was one of three in over a century with a Universe quirk that would open up portals to bring people here or take others to safety elsewhere. Anyway I'm rambling they left the house to the agency to find new owners…"
Sarah catches on to the sad tone in his voice and speeds up slightly to walk next to him. "If I may ask what happened to them? Did they just decide to move?"
He shakes his head looking down at the shorter woman blushing slightly as most women refused to talk with him. "Fraid not, Hazel saw a vision and said they had to bring new people here or we'd be doomed. She died from that vision, her quirk overcame her before she could say exactly who we needed here. Her husband Barin died last week trying to open the portal claiming he found the people we needed. But don't you fret us heroes will be here to fight whatever she saw. Say when did you two arrive here? Maybe you're the people we need." He says trying to steer the conversation onto lighter topics.
Sarah's mind was racing as was her friends. This would explain how they got here but why would it take a week for the portal to open...unless it had remained open the entire time though both doubted it due to the fact then anyone could have been here.
"Nah we just got here yesterday." Sarah answers, looking up at the two story house they were walking up to. "So how much is the place? Any work that needs done?"
Toyomitsu looked back to his sidekick. "Fifty hundred thirty six thousand six hundred seventy two. That covers the house and property along with it already being furnished. You get to keep everything they left behind, all utilities are around ten thousand yen a month."
Nikki does the conversion as FatGum opens the door and lets Sarah in before ducking down peeking just his head inside. "I'll be out here if you have any questions, go ahead and look around."
Sarah looks back mentally making a note to make a bigger door if they get the place so the tall people could enter without issue, the ceilings were high at least ten foot she noted.
"Thanks Gummy, we won't take long." Sarah pelies without thinking using the nickname she had given him due to her hate of the word fat.
She walks around as Nikki enters after FatGum moves aside for her, also making a mental note to get a bigger door as All Might was tall as well and damit she was gonna make him her friend.
Sarah walks around the corner into a nice sized kitchen with dark red wood cabinets and stone counters. This place was definitely more her style then Nikki's as she liked the older feel to it and the plants everywhere is something she loved. This place was definitely one she wanted.
She goes up what they call servant stairs to the second floor knowing Nikki would prefer the lower floor anyway.
Her mouth drops at the openness of it. The roof was mostly glass so you could see the sky above but it filtered the harsh sunlight. In the corner to the right was a huge king bed in the middle of the floor facing a window that looked over the back. The left held an art studio with paintings of flowers and horses and other things that intrigued the girl. The ceiling also held fairy lights streaming throughout the room and the sound of water caught her attention. Turning she found a small fountain that gleamed with coins in the bottom while the walls of it were stone covered with moss. The smell of the room relaxed the tension from her shoulders and she knew this would be her place even if Nikki wanted one of the others they could afford it for now. Though they would need more than just her income for it.
Nikki doesn't bother going upstairs and walks around the lower floor, she wasn't fond of the style as she liked more modern type places but she liked all the windows with the natural light coming in. and with the wall outside she wasn't worried about people peeking in or being nosy.
"The door to the basement is to the right near the living room." FatGum calls watching through the door way
Nikki walks to said door and descends into the basement. The air turns cooler but not dank or smelly which was nice compared to the warmer upper floors. As her foot hits the bottom step she looks up to see a massive tv that nearly took up half the far wall, to her right was a desk and one of the fancy gaming chairs with four computer screens two on the desk and two hanging on the wall leaving room to still work in front of the screens and as she walked closer she saw a little table tucked under the left side that when she pulled on it it extended to another portion of the desk to make it bigger.
"Sweet."
She moved to the other side of the room to see an old looking couch that seemed in good shape still and when she sat in it thought it was the most comfortable couch ever.
She looks around the room and spots a makeshift gym behind the stairs almost like it was hidden with a bed on the floor next to it she bet was a full.
"Sarah! I want!!!" she yells to her friend.
Sarah grins hearing Nikki's agreement, "That means she found something she likes down there which works." she mutters coming down the stairs as she hollered back. "Same! Sold!"
FatGum is bent down practically crouching in the door but in his bigger form there was no way for him to come inside. "So you two agree? I can give you the address ad you can give your payment there tomorrow or when you have the money."
Sarah goes outside to talk with him so he wouldn't have to be uncomfortable. The covered porch was about a foot above his head and the rocker behind him got moved as he bumps into it.
"If it's alright I'd like to pay in cash now if that's alright. We both don't really have papers just yet for all the legal stuff seems a bunch of mishaps happened in the process of coming here…"
Nikki comes across a file cabinet and out of curiosity she opens it finding a file with her name on it. "What the hell?"
She opens it and sees a picture of her delivering mail and in the front pocket she finds an ID along with a social and all the other paper work she'd need for this world. "Holy hell….we were those people...but why us?" she mutters looking further in the drawer and seeing a file on Sarah along with ID's and everything.
She quickly slides the ID's into her pocket and stuffs the rest of the papers into her jacket pocket just in case they couldn't get the house.
She then rushes upstairs to show her friend to find her outside talking about the paperwork being an issue.
Quickly stepping in she interrupted. "Sorry I forgot to tell you these were delivered earlier so we should be good."
Sarah's eyes widen as she gives her friend a look before covering it up for now. She'd question it later but they couldn't talk in front of FatGum right now.
FatGum smiles and looks over the ID's that Nikki hands them. "Well that must be a relief. So just swing by tomorrow and I'll have the papers ready to sign."
"Thank you so much, I'll swing by after work tomorrow." Sarah says smiling up at the giant man.
Nikki looks between the two already deciding if they stayed she would try to set the two up together. She knew her friend didn't give two shits about weight or looks only about character and actions.
She had noticed the blush earlier even if her friend had not and she suspected as she watches the two the other girl didn't see the slightly pink cheeks of the man before her.
"So where do you work if I may ask?" he questions as they walk off the porch towards the fence.
His sidekick had went back to patrolling the area earlier.
"A little Cafe, I'm working as the cook for now. The boss says he may train me on coffee too so I can cover the front if needed." Sarah says trailing her hand along the plants along the sidewalk a small smile on her face.
"It's where Present Mic does his radio show, he works from the place above it. You should check it out, Sarah's a pretty good cook." Nikki comments, smirking as she folds her hands behind her back.
FatGum blinks surprised. "He's normally too loud for people to be around him without hearing loss or ear plugs, that must be hard to work with ear plugs. How do you hear the orders?"
Sarah's eyes furrow as she tilts her head saying softly. "I didn't think he was that loud, I mean at first he was….wait must be my quirk."
Nikki moves forward now becoming worried. "No. No experimenting after last night!"
FatGum looks between the two slightly confused. "What is your quirk to make her seem so worried?"
Sarah waves off her friend's concern. "Dude it's cool, you didn't know. It's not like I advertise my fears." She then looks to FatGum to answer him. "Not really sure, it just manifested last night so I'm still trying to figure it out. I thought it was hardening of a type due to the diamond skin then the scales with the fire but with the hearing if most can't be around the boss then maybe it's something else."
He blinks leaning down now concerned. "Fire? Why would you use fire?!"
Sarah pats his arm smiling. "Please drop this, she feels bad about it already. It's the first time she really saw me scared."
Nikki crosses her arms looking down feeling like shit for it still.
Seeing this FatGum nods stopping outside the gate. "So why call me Gummy? My name is FatGum."
Sarah's eyes narrow as she crosses her arms at him saying sternly. "Because I hate the word fat. People use it as a slur or an insult and it pisses me off. So it's Gummy. You're my favorite hero so I refuse to insult you like that."
"Yup. so you're not fat, you're fluffy. A fluffy boi." Nikki adds standing by Sarah's side.
The man blushes at that feeling moved that they felt that way. He rubs the back of his head laughing. "It's alright I am ok with that name but you can call me Gummy if that's what you prefer."
"Good. Soooo can I hug you? Cause you're frickin' adorable and amazing and i just wanna hug you…" Sarah says still fangirling inside.
"I wanna hug you too! You're a giant cinnamon roll." Nikki adds also wanting to hug the giant man.
FatGum goes completely red now as no female had ever asked to hug him, most judged him by his size and made him feel self conscious. "Uhh...sure?"
Both girls instantly hugged him, squeezing him tightly for a minute, he gently patted their back being careful of his hand placement.
Once they let go Sarah gets his card to know where to go for the papers and then they head back to the hotel.
FatGum watches the two walk away and around the corner before he turns and goes back to patrolling feeling slightly better about himself because of the two strange women.
Back at the hotel Sarah sits on the bed as Nikki goes to take a shower. Once the door shuts Sarah pulls out the ring on her necklace staring at it feeling hollow.
She plays with the ring rolling it between her fingers staring out the windows wondering if she should tell her friend now or just wait for a better time.
Sighing, she puts it back under her shirt and closes the window when her phone goes off.
Seeing her grandma's number she curses. Her boss must have bitched out her grandma because she quit on such short notice.
"Hi grandma… I'm sorry I should have told you first."
"Damn right you should have! That just made my morning walking in the door and getting bitched out. Why'd you quit so suddenly? You should work the two weeks. It looks bad on your next job if you don't honey."
Sarah makes a fist her nails cutting into her palm as she holds back tears. "I know, I didn't exactly have a choice. I can't explain but I'm not in the states anymore and I don't know what will happen. This is all strange and scary and I don't know what will happen. Please don't tell anyone though. No one would believe me even if I told the truth so please don't ask."
The silence on the other end made Sarah nervous and even more angry. She leans her head against the glass, her fist on the frame. She felt like punching something but her energy was drained from not sleeping.
"Honey where are you if not in the states?" her grandma's voice asks much softer as if sensing the pain and hurt.
"Japan. I have Nikki so we'll be ok...I just don't know if I'll come back or not yet. Let me figure things out….I love you."
Sarah hangs up unable to talk anymore. She doesn't even hear the door open up and Nikki comes back into the room.
When Nikki sees Sarah she feels like shit. She had already talked to her family and they were cool with it. She knew Sarah's family was much more tight knit and it would be an issue if they stayed here more than a week.
"You ok?"
Sarah jumps, flipping around quickly wiping her tears. "No but I will be. I'm gonna change and go to bed."
Nikki frowns and blocks her, giving her a hug that takes Sarah a moment to hug back. Nikki felt very light pressure as if Sarah was afraid to break. Sarah pulls away and gives a small smile before heading to the bathroom and changing into pj's.
When Sarah comes back into the room Nikki is on her bed playing on her phone. She goes to her bed and crawls in putting in headphones she had gotten on the way back playing her music softly to try to sleep.
She could still hear, she hears as Nikki slides into the covers and sets down her phone. She falls into a light sleep still aware of her surroundings and the going ons of the people next to them and people passing in the hall.
Sarah wakes up at four unable to sleep any longer from the nightmares.
Tossing her pillow onto her bed she gets up deciding she'd find something to do until Nikki woke up or it was time for work.
NIkki hears Sarah moving around and peaks open an eye before seeing the time and closing it again thinking 'fuck no too goddamn early.'
Sarah walks out of the room with the papers Nikki had found figuring she would look over them with some coffee in the coffee shop downstairs.